The ability to teach yourself a difficult skill with limited resources is a much better indicator than a college degree. It's not foolproof, but if someone can figure out how NixOS works, or how to write a Vulkan renderer, or anything else with limited documentation, hire them.
If your first thought after reading this is "NixOS isn't that hard" then I guarantee you are an exceptionally good programmer with really bad imposter syndrome.
Erik McClure /
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